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BENGALURU: India needs to focus on converting its good research work into business and invest in education, Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan said today. Acknowledging that good research work is already being done in India, Gopalakrishnan said, "We need to focus on taking the research and creating businesses out of it. The translation of research to business... that ecosystem is not matured in India, it is very weak, there are possibly very few examples of it. " "This is because it is not part of the culture, it is not part of the process till now...

KOCHI: IT Major Infosys Technologies would be focussing on emerging countries, including Brazil, China and India, a top official of the company today said. 'We are focussing on emerging countries as Brazil, China and India. We are increasing sales bandwith with these countries to grow business', Infosys Managing Director and CEO, Kris Gopalakrishnan, told reporters here on the sidelines of ICT summit. It will take some time. The growth was faster in US and UK. US constitues 62 per cent of the company's revenues and in the next 5-10 years it should be constitute only 40 per cent and other countries should grow faster, he said.

DAVOS: Enthused by improving global economic scenario and a renewed wave of reforms back in India, IT giant Infosys says it is bullish over better growth prospects of IT sector in 2013 and expects greater job creation this year. "I believe 2013 to be better than 2012 for IT sector as globally lots of uncertainties have been removed, US elections are over, Europe is not going to split and people believe that it is going to stay together," Infosys Co-founder and Executive Co-Chairman S Gopalakrishnan told PTI here.

BENGALURU: Infosys co-founder 'Kris' Gopalakrishnan and his wife Sudha have set up three research chairs at the city-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc), continuing their push for brain research in the country's top institutions. The first of the three chairs — K Vaidyanathan Distinguished Chair named after Sudha's father — was launched on Monday. Each chair will be set up with a corpus of Rs 10 crore funded by Pratiksha Trust, a charitable organisation Kris founded with his wife.

BANGALORE: Fresh from passing on the baton at Infosys, co-founders SD Shibulal and Kris Gopalakrishnan are teaming up once more to mentor and back early-stage ventures with an aim to invest up to $1 million in each startup they pick. They will set up an incubator, Axilor Ventures, along with Infosys veteran Srinath Batni, who earlier led the delivery operations at the software services company. The announcement of the new venture is expected at the end of November.

NEW DELHI: Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Chairman, Infosys says that the IT sector in India is projected to add around 2-2.5 lakh jobs in the next one year. He however cautioned of an economic uncertainity in the short term. "In the medium to long term I am very optimistic about the prospect for the IT industry because technology investment will continue to grow and most of the companies today are looking at India based development centres, captive centres or service providers to support them.

SAN FRANCISCO: Kris Gopalakrishnan, Vineet Nayar and S Ramadorai are going back to university, with a list of classmates that includes leading international scientists, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Avatar director James Cameron and actor Tom Hanks. For two-and-a-half days in March, the leading lights of three of India's largest IT companies - Infosys , HCL Technologies and TCS, respectively - will gather in Los Angeles , California, to be part of a unique programme run by a little-known educational institution called Singularity University (SU)

As he moves further away from an operational role at Infosys Technologies , S Gopalakrishnan, co-chairman of India's second largest software services company is involving himself with ideas that he believes will define business in the 21st century. The Infosys Sustainability Agenda is spread across three areas - social contract where employees engage in causes ranging from education, rural rehabilitation to inclusive growth; resource intensity which drives the company's agenda to become carbon neutral and finally green innovation combining sustainability with engineering to develop green products and services to reduce carbon footprint of clients.

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies Executive Co-Chairman Krish Gopalakrishnan on Thursday said Infosys has not seen clients reducing their budget plan on information technology due to the slowdown in the US and Europe this year. "If there was a cut back it would probably get reflected in next year's budget ... all companies are doing well financially... their cash positions are strong ... balance sheets are strong. They are prepared to face the slowdown period," he told reporters on the sidelines of the Seventh India Innovation Summit 2011 here.

BENGALURU: Its global delivery model is what earned Infosys its stripes, helping it become the cynosure of Indian IT during the dotcom era and embody the Indian middle-class dream through the 90s and 2000s. What is not widely known is the fact that during the 80s, India's second-biggest outsourcing company had also briefly (and unsuccessfully) dabbled in the hardware business. Infosys also had a hardware product — we withdrew from that space very early on," said Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan during an ETtech Meetup on Friday.